A.D. Tee
A.D. Tee
A.D. Tee

A.D. Tee

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"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us." 

Fred Jameson said: It is therefore time ... to learn to think dialecti­cally, to acquire the rudiments of a dialectical culture and the essential critical weapons which it provides.

A.D. = those intrinsic, interconnected, never finished, dynamically unfolding forces at work on every level. . . ... "lest it entrench itself in rigidity".

Some call it 🄰pollonian & Ⓓionysian.. others Order & Entropy...Planning & Spontaneity...Stem & Flower..or 🄰ngel…Ⓓevil…Eros & Thanatos, Form & Content, Theory & Practice, Positive & Negative, Subject & Object…Freedom…Necessity 

Recognizing the whole of things is to consider everything that happening between the poles.

As the motor of transformation, stereo-conceptions overcome what has been severed, (humanity & nature, reality & imagination, past & present, materialism & spiritualism, quality & quantity, determinism & chance, status quo & change). Putting each side into oscillation, they cease to be antinomies through practice.

With continual reflection is the possibility for perpetual beginnings against intellectual and practical domination and control.

Not a synthesis but an approach and a joining together. A prerequisite for cooperative relations. 

Maintain tension b/w the ideal and real

Book as pacenotes: "A sketch that your life depends on" & political and philosophical tools for the anti-totalitarian struggle. 

Radial organization rooted in life:

Magmatic potential to end what is and bring in the new: 

Goethes's One and All:

why Goethe.... "Hegel was “introduced to Goethe’s ‘Metamorphosis of Plants’, [he] came to one of his defining insights; namely, first, that the history of philosophy could be understood as a developing set of shapes of the same thing instead of just a procession of competing philosophical systems, and, second, that this insight could be extended to all of human history itself."  * Goethe–>Hegel->Marx–>G

Illustration by Ernst Barlach for a Goethe edition
(Recto, Verso and the double page spread as AD):

Barlach: "Every art belongs to two: one who makes it and one who needs it."